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    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
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      "chunk_title": "Marco Polo Visits Thomas’s Tomb",
      "chunk_data": "21. MARCO POLO ON THE TOMB OF ST. THOMAS\n(1292 A.D.)\nMarco Polo, the Venetian traveller, gives an account of his visit to the site of the tomb of St. Thomas in India.",
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      "chunk_data": "Yule, The Book of Marco Polo the Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, p. 341. Cited in G. M. Moraes, A History of Christianity in India, pp. 49-50.",
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      "chunk_data": "Nothing on earth would induce them to enter the place where Messer St. Thomas is—I mean where his body lies, which is in a certain city of the province of Ma'bar.",
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      "chunk_data": "Indeed, were twenty or thirty men to lay hold of one of these govis and try to hold him in the place where the body of the blessed Apostle of Jesus Christ lies, they could not do it!",
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      "chunk_data": "Such is the influence of the Saint; for it was by people of this generation that he was slain.",
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